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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Labes (City of Labes, Pomerania) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Labes i/Pom. 75 Pfennig. 1400 Die Giltigkeit erlischt einen Monat nach Bekanntgabe in der Kreiszeitung des Kreises Regenwalde. Labes i/Pom. im Oktober 1921. Der Magistrat Otto Schimmelpfennig Labes Pom. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm amber and olive tones, with a light blue guilloche border. The central vignette takes the form of an oversized wooden clog (Schlurren), its interior framing a small genre scene of two figures — a man in a top hat with a cane and a woman — at a doorway. Hexagonal denomination panels bearing '75' appear at the upper left and right corners, flanked by grain-stalk ornaments, with a four-line verse in a scroll panel at the lower margin. |
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Labes (now Łobez, Poland) was one of hundreds of small Pomeranian towns that resorted to locally printed Notgeld during the postwar inflation years, but having your emergency currency printed by a firm whose name literally translates as "Otto Moldy-penny" lends this particular note a certain unintended irony. Schimmelpfennig operated as a local printer rather than a specialist banknote firm, and the quality of production reflects that — registration inconsistencies are common across the series.
The GrM reference places this within the Grabowski-Mehl Notgeld catalog, the standard reference for German municipal emergency issues of this period.